Serious Organised Crime Agency

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff the Serious Organised Crimes Agency employed in each of the last five years.

Nick Herbert: The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), as of 31 March in the last five years is set out in the following table. The figure for 2007 is headcount, thereafter SOCA moved to reporting full-time equivalent staff numbers.
	
		
			 As at 31 March each year Number 
			 2007 4,285 
			 2008 3,973.45 
			 2009 4,014 
			 2010 4,060.9 
			 2011 3.872.5